1 00:00:10,143 --> 00:00:13,046 Yes. The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope 2 00:00:13,046 --> 00:00:16,850 are designed to demonstrate the full range of the capabilities of the telescope. 3 00:00:17,083 --> 00:00:21,488 So we have everything from the deepest infrared image of the universe so far, 4 00:00:21,654 --> 00:00:26,059 a stellar nursery, a star dying, and the spectrum of an atmosphere 5 00:00:26,059 --> 00:00:30,730 of an exoplanet or a planet orbiting another star. 6 00:00:35,402 --> 00:00:37,704 So the deep field images looking into the farthest, 7 00:00:38,071 --> 00:00:41,608 deepest image, infrared image we have of the universe so far. 8 00:00:41,808 --> 00:00:45,445 What you see in the foreground are some star at some nearby stars. 9 00:00:45,478 --> 00:00:47,747 So the things that are really pointy are nearby stars. 10 00:00:48,014 --> 00:00:51,451 The colors further back are galaxies that are far away, 11 00:00:51,651 --> 00:00:54,587 and some of them are even bent and stretched because of that. 12 00:00:54,721 --> 00:00:58,925 The amount of time and the gravitational fields. 13 00:01:03,363 --> 00:01:03,596 Yeah. 14 00:01:03,596 --> 00:01:04,164 So the Southern 15 00:01:04,164 --> 00:01:08,368 Ring Nebula, it's a it's a dying star and it's a cloud of gas that surrounds it. 16 00:01:08,368 --> 00:01:11,037 So stars have an evolution and a lifetime. 17 00:01:11,037 --> 00:01:12,705 So they're, you know, they're they're formed. 18 00:01:12,705 --> 00:01:14,040 Like, what we see in the Carina 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,844 Nebula is an area stellar nursery, an area of star formation. 20 00:01:17,977 --> 00:01:20,914 And as they work through their lifecycle, then they start to run out of fuel. 21 00:01:21,114 --> 00:01:23,683 They die and they have a cloud of gas that surrounds them. 22 00:01:23,683 --> 00:01:27,754 And that's what we're seeing in the southern ring. 23 00:01:31,291 --> 00:01:35,228 This is a set of galaxies that are sort of locked in a cosmic dance. 24 00:01:35,228 --> 00:01:36,029 And so they're moving. 25 00:01:36,029 --> 00:01:39,099 And there two of them are merging and we can see all of them 26 00:01:39,099 --> 00:01:43,937 moving around in that and their interactions. 27 00:01:48,541 --> 00:01:49,008 The Carina 28 00:01:49,008 --> 00:01:52,245 Nebula is a stellar nursery, so this is a place where stars form. 29 00:01:52,745 --> 00:01:54,681 And we've seen images of this from Hubble. 30 00:01:54,681 --> 00:01:57,450 And if you look at the Hubble versus the James Webb Space Telescope, 31 00:01:57,450 --> 00:02:01,521 you can see how much more detail and high resolution we got with the new telescope. 32 00:02:01,688 --> 00:02:06,893 In addition to seeing new things that we couldn't see before. 33 00:02:10,864 --> 00:02:12,732 So this we can see the end of the composition 34 00:02:12,732 --> 00:02:14,200 of the atmosphere, an exoplanet. 35 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,737 So what it's made of and the specific planet we're looking at is hot. 36 00:02:18,438 --> 00:02:20,907 And so what we see in that is that there's water there 37 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,610 and it wouldn't be in liquid form because of the planet type. 38 00:02:23,610 --> 00:02:25,678 So it'd be more like steam that's around it. 39 00:02:25,678 --> 00:02:29,249 But we can tell what's in that atmosphere. 40 00:02:33,453 --> 00:02:33,853 Sure. 41 00:02:33,853 --> 00:02:36,489 So infrared is a longer wavelength, invisible light. 42 00:02:36,489 --> 00:02:38,324 So we can't see infrared. 43 00:02:38,324 --> 00:02:39,993 But James Webb can. 44 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:43,296 And what's important about an infrared telescope is it allows us to see through 45 00:02:43,296 --> 00:02:48,334 clouds of gas and dust and see the planets and stars and galaxies that are beyond. 46 00:02:48,601 --> 00:02:51,538 In addition, James Webb has a larger mirror than Hubble, 47 00:02:52,172 --> 00:02:54,574 so it can see back further in time, and it's orbiting 48 00:02:54,574 --> 00:02:57,143 at a different point. 49 00:03:02,215 --> 00:03:04,517 Well, it's going to allow us to understand 50 00:03:04,517 --> 00:03:08,821 every phase of cosmic history for the last 13 and a half billion years. 51 00:03:09,055 --> 00:03:11,791 So we would answer questions like, how are galaxies formed 52 00:03:11,991 --> 00:03:13,860 and where do we fit into the cosmos? 53 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:16,329 We'll be able to see the formation of stars and planets. 54 00:03:16,329 --> 00:03:21,434 We'll also be able to understand atmospheres of exoplanets. 55 00:03:25,305 --> 00:03:26,506 I'm excited about all of it. 56 00:03:26,506 --> 00:03:29,842 When I look at those images, I see, you know, they are so beautiful and inspiring. 57 00:03:29,842 --> 00:03:31,744 And I have a lot of questions 58 00:03:31,744 --> 00:03:33,213 and I'm also I'm an earth scientist, 59 00:03:33,213 --> 00:03:36,549 so I'm really interested in atmospheres of other planets, but I'm also interested 60 00:03:36,549 --> 00:03:40,353 in what we can learn from some of those other images. 61 00:03:44,457 --> 00:03:45,959 So we have everything on our website. 62 00:03:45,959 --> 00:03:48,928 NASA's website so jwst.nasa.gov.